Original Story (July 8, 10 a.m.): The Senate Health & Human Services Committee is holding a public hearing today on a bill that would limit access to abortions in Texas.

Public testimony on Senate Bill 1 began just after 11 a.m. Eleven groups of 60 people filled out paperwork necessary to testify on, for or against the bill before the committee. Public testimony is limited to two minutes per person.

If everyone speaks for the maximum two minutes each, testimony could stretch well into tomorrow.

People that missed the cut-off for testimony will be allowed to register their opinion on the bill, but will not be able to speak before the committee.

At a House committee meeting last week, more than 1,000 people who signed up to testify on the house version of the bill (House Bill 2) were unable to. The House committee passed the bill. The full Texas House of Representatives is expected to take up the bill this week.

For continued coverage of the hearing, follow @kutnews and watch the livestream of the hearing, which is available on the legislature's website and in the player below, via KUT News' reporting partners The Texas Tribune. Here's more coverage from KUT News:

Update: A Texas House panel voted early this morning along party lines to pass a bill to put more restrictions on abortion in the state. While the committee heard hours of testimony, more than one thousand people who signed up to speak, weren’t given the opportunity.

As the Texas Legislature's second special session begins, protestors have descended upon the Capitol to demonstrate both for and against new abortion restrictions that lawmakers will consider. Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protestors have been milling around the Capitol to let lawmakers know where, and with which side, they stand.